NickLeylandMedia

I will try this once cloning hopefully completes. Thank you for the help.

Cloning the drive using ddrescue now. Once I do that, do I just assign the newly cloned drive as my new parity drive? Are there other steps to take after that? Or is this just going to be a place for me to go looking for my files?

I've used ddrecue in the past to clone disks with success. How can I do this with unraid? Would I have to fire up some kind of VM? or can it be done from the unraid terminal. Apologies if I'm asking this question with wrong terminology, I am still an unraid noob. Thank you! Edit: when I've done it in the past, all of my drives were hooked up via USB, now they are living in a server.

In regards to this, the array took the data disk offline itself and began emulating it which was why I RMA'd it. I may have jumped the gun, but I was trying to be safe rather than sorry. Ironically I shot myself in the foot. The files aren't even being emulated anymore so I think I totally lost the last couple months of data, which luckily is nothing super crucial. I have backups of the rest of my data. Minus some vacation pics but I'll live. The files were at least being emulated fine and I could view them in the unraid GUI before. Now when I view files I can't see anything. I assume I am now totally hopeless on trying to copy any files off of the emulated disk? The only thing I did was swap the SATA and power cable of the failing parity drive.

I have 2 6TB disks in my array currently. One for Data and one for Parity. A few months ago I was starting to get errors on the data disk, so I sent it in to get replaced, leaving ONLY the parity disk in the array. Shoestring budget and highly not ideal, but it was what I had to do. The RMA process took two months, and in this time, the data drive was being emulated fine, I've been copying/editing files and using my shares as normal from windows. Fast forward to today, I FINALLY get my replacement drive and go to slot it into the array. The data rebuild starts, and I keep getting SMART warnings. Then the data rebuild seems to hang at 0.9% and I see no writes happening to the replacement data disk. There are thousands of errors stacking up on the parity drive in the main list as well. I ran an extended SMART test on my parity drive and I got "Completed: read failure". Did both drives fail? Is it a communication error or something? Diagnostics are attached. I'm hoping someone can help me figure this out. Thank you. datahub-diagnostics-20260116-1218.zip